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### PANDEMICS AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT
### THE ELECTORAL LEGACY OF THE BLACK DEATH IN GERMANY
### WORLD POLITICS, VOL. 73, NO. 3 (JULY 2021)
### README.TXT
### DANIEL W. GINGERICH & JAN P. VOGLER
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This archive consists of several files that are needed to replicate the results of our study. It contains the following items:

1. This README.txt file;
2. The file "ppd_replication_01_imperial_germany.R", which replicates the empirical analysis of Imperial Germany. It covers tables 1-3 and figures 6-7 in the article as well as tables A1-A20 in the supplementary material;
3. The file "ppd_replication_02_weimar_germany.R", which replicates the empirical analysis of Weimar Germany. It covers tables 4-5 and figures 8-9 in the article as well as tables A21-A25 in the supplementary material;
4. The file "ppd_replication_03_pre_ref_germany.R", which replicates the empirical analysis of Pre-Reformation Germany. It covers tables 6-7 in the article as well as tables A26-A28 in the supplementary material;
5. The file "ppd_replication_04_19th_c_prussia.R", which replicates the empirical analysis of Early Nineteenth-Century Prussia. It covers tables 8-9 in the article as well as tables A29-A31 in the supplementary material;
6. A large number of datasets in different formats (CSV, DTA) that are necessary to replicate the results of our empirical analysis.

For further details, please consult the detailed codebooks (PDF format) associated with each of the aforementioned replication files.